Mansfield Prize 2024 Awarded to Jens Carlesson Magalhães and Fredrik Jansson

Posted on April 10, 2024

The Mansfield Prize Committee unanimously agreed to give the award for the best article published in the Journal of Religious History (2023) to Jens Carlesson Magalhães and Fredrik Jansson for their article  ‘The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852’, Journal of Religious History 47.2 (2023), 318–339. The...

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CFP: CIHEC Riga 2024

Posted on November 28, 2023

      Annual General Meeting of the International Commission of Historians of Religion CIHEC, Riga, June 3-5, 2024   The International Commission of Historians of Religion and the Theological Faculty of the University of Latvia organize the general meeting of the CIHEC (cihec.org) in 2024. It will take place in Riga from June 3 to June 5, 2024. We will start on June 3 at...

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John Gascoigne: The history of English Presbyterianism – a review of David L. Wykes’ Congregational Lecture

Posted on September 18, 2023

David L. Wykes: Eighteenth-century English Presbyterianism and Congregationalism Reconsidered. London: The Congregational Memorial Hall Trust Ltd., (1978), 32pp. The history of English Presbyterianism in the eighteenth century has been told in teleological terms as a passage from evangelical zeal in the period of persecution in the Restoration and grudging toleration under Queen Anne to...

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